Polarity: rehearsal

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Title

Polarity: rehearsal

Collection

Merce Cunningham Video Archive

Names

Cunningham, Merce (Creator)
Cunningham, Merce (Choreographer)
Barrow, Helen (Dancer)
Finlayson, Victoria (Dancer)
Good, Alan (Dancer)
Komar, Chris (Dancer)
Lent, Patricia (Dancer)
Swinston, Robert (Dancer)
Teitelbaum, Carol (Dancer)
Bartosik, Kimberly (Dancer)
Cole, Michael Eugene (Dancer)
Diamond, Emma (Dancer)
Kulick, David (Dancer)
McGoldrick, Larissa (Dancer)
Weaver, Jenifer (Dancer)
Wood, Robert (Dancer)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1990-04-06

Table Of Contents

Polarity, cast A (27 min.) -- Polarity, cast B (30 min.)

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2889
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-983 (former)

Subjects

Rehearsals
Modern dance

Genres

Filmed Dance

Notes

Content: Notes on original container: cast A & B; stage left.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at the Cunningham studio, Westbeth, New York City, Apr. 6, 1990.
Biographical/Historical: Polarity premiered Mar. 13, 1990, with a musical score by David Tudor.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (57 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

This video features two studio run-throughs of Polarity, rehearsed by alternate casts, in rehearsal clothes, without musical accompaniment.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16143620
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f657f640-e873-0131-61e9-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Polarity: rehearsal" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1990. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f657f640-e873-0131-61e9-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1990). Polarity: rehearsal Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f657f640-e873-0131-61e9-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Polarity: rehearsal" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f657f640-e873-0131-61e9-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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